The U.S. Energy Information Administration Friday reported it construction of new natural gas pipeline capacity in the United States to continue in 2018, in particular in the northeastern United States.

By the end of 2018, if all projects come online by their scheduled service dates, more than 23 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of takeaway capacity will be online out of the Northeast, up from an estimated 16.7 Bcf/d at the end of 2017 and more than three times the takeaway capacity at the end of 2014.

Currently, the growth of natural gas production in the Marcellus and Utica basins in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia is constrained by the lack of available takeaway pipeline capacity to move it to new markets.

As new pipeline projects come online, they will create an outlet for increased production, providing natural gas to demand markets in the Midwest, the Southeast, eastern Canada, and the Gulf Coast.

Currently, no major pipeline capacity expansions in advanced development are slated to come online in New England because of stakeholder concerns raised in the development process.

Of the projects scheduled to be in service by the end of 2018, most are associated with four major interstate pipelines: Columbia Pipeline Group, which includes both Columbia Gas and Columbia Gulf Transmission; Transcontinental Gas Pipeline; Rover Pipeline; and NEXUS Pipeline.

EIA is tracking more than 160 natural gas pipeline projects. Of these projects, 37 have been completed or are currently under construction and expected to come into service by the end of 2018.

Click Here for EIA’s full report.  Click Here for a list of pipeline projects by region.  Click Here for state-to-state pipeline capacity. 

Click Here to locate federally regulated natural gas and hazardous liquids pipelines down to the county level.

EIA’s Natural Gas Pipeline Projects tracker, updated quarterly, and EIA’s historical data for U.S. state-to-state pipeline capacities, are both available on EIA’s website.

(Map: Natural gas (blue) and hazardous liquids (red) pipelines regulated by the feds.)

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[Posted: May 18, 2018]

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